Brazil women's national football team
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Nickname | A Seleção (The Selected) As Canarinhas (The Female Canaries) Auriverde (Green-and-Yellow) Verde-Amarela (Green-and-Yellow) Samba Queens |
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Association | Brazilian Football Confederation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Jorge Luiz Barcellos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Most caps | – | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Top scorer | Marta Vieira da Silva | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FIFA rank | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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First International Brazil 1–2 USA (Jesolo, Italy; 22 July 1986) |
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Largest win Brazil 15–0 Bolivia (Uberlândia, Brazil; 18 January 1995) Brazil 15–0 Peru (Mar del Plata, Argentina; 2 March 1998) |
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Worst defeat Brazil 0–6 USA (Denver, USA; 26 September 1999) |
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World Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Appearances | 5 (First in 1991) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best result | Runner up, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Olympic Games | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Appearances | 3 (First in 1996) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best result | Runner up, 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
South-American Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Appearances | 5 (First in 1991) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best result | Winners, 1991, 1995, 1998, 2003 |
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Silver | 2004 Athens | Team | |
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Gold | 2003 Santo Domingo | Team | |
Gold | 2007 Rio de Janeiro | Team |
The Brazil women's national football team represents Brazil in international women's football.
The team finished the 1999 World Cup in the third place. In 1998 and 1999, the team was the runner-up of the Women's U.S. Cup.
Brazil finished the 2000 Olympic Games in the fourth place, and was the runner-up of the 2004 Olympic Games.
In 2002 and in 2004, Brazil women's U-20 national football team was the fourth placed team in the FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship.
Brazil is the most successful women's national team in South America, having won the first four installments of the South-American Championships. The rise of Argentina as a rival, as in the men's game, became apparent in the 2006 South American Championship, where the Canarinhas were defeated in the final for the first time.
Despite the women's success, Brazilians have not been entirely supportive of the program. However, after a second-place finish at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, the country has begun to notice the women's side.
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[edit] World Cup record
[edit] Sudamericano Femenino record
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[edit] Olympic Games
[edit] Pan American Games Record
[edit] Current Squad
World Cup squad, 2007
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